Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756622Ab0K3UJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:09:41 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:64291 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756127Ab0K3UJj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:09:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=CeEMxjAwpkFbs+lXbTmMRv5URmV2VWqRYKwNZmqGCD6QwgcJqzRGutntwudutFxt7q jty4DGv7uBIPcykQb1DlqGVBimdEoL0C71+rhDcNARC7JL37YJAEJWRWDKGL/+6BL1+4 Qg21DehIAX3pfmZbv2xJa26v5x6fQQZRoGzmY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101130200019.GA28735@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20101118113441.74fcdc21@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101130192648.GA1623@ucw.cz> <20101130200019.GA28735@elf.ucw.cz> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:09:18 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0VrgQkbxPCrQEA_BEveFxzIi-Og Message-ID: Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first To: Pavel Machek Cc: bkuhn@ebb.org, Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , Greg KH , David Miller , "John W. Linville" , Stephen Hemminger , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Charles Marker , Jouni Malinen , Kevin Hayes , Zhifeng Cai , Don Breslin , Doug Dahlby , Julia Lawall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1861 Lines: 47 On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this >> >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's >> >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for >> >> > >> >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL, >> >> >> >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with >> >> permissive licensed files. >> > >> > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so >> > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL. >> >> Oh? > > Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so. > > /* >  * Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc. >  * >  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software > for any >  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > above >  * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. >  * > > ...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I > have it. Got it, OK let me clarify that for you then. Yes. That is what makes it GPL-Compatible. We droped the Dual GPL/BSD practice and picked up the ISC license to help OpenBSD when we took Reyk's HAL from OpenBSD. The ISC license is just a simpler BSD license due the Berne Convention which makes one of the clauses implicit (respecting copyright between countries). Its just a very simple permissive license. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/